BlogPulse was a search engine and analytic system for
blogs
A blog (a truncation of "weblog") is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order ...
. It uses automated processes to monitor the daily activity on blogs and generates trend information. It was initially created by IntelliSeek, and was later acquired by the
Nielsen Company, and currently owned by NM Incite, A Nielsen /
McKinsey & Company
McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...
.
As of January 2012, BlogPulse is no longer available.
Features
BlogPulse permits searching of the past six months of blog posts. Beyond the searching, there are some useful tools here:
*Trend search - generate a buzz trend chart for up to three such groups of query terms
*Conversation tracker - create a threaded conversation graph for any topic or blog post to see how the buzz spread through blogs for that topic
*Blog profiles - in-depth data about the top blogs, analysis of their blog presence, activity, and influence
*Real-time buzz - seen on the home page, provides an up to the minute view of the buzz trend across major categories
*Daily analytics - top links, top blogs, top videos, top news stories, key people, top blog posts, key phrases, top news sources all updated daily
*Highlights - curated trends in buzz, updated daily
Benefits
As a blog search engine, BlogPulse can be used to do a search of just blog posts. Bloggers can ensure their posts are being indexed and find out how they rank against other bloggers. Public relations or media relations practitioners can use BlogPulse to learn about the buzz around any brand or company they represent. It is also an effective research to find out what trends people are paying attention to.
See also
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Technorati
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BlogScope
BlogScope was a search engine for the blogosphere with advanced analysis and visualization technology, founded in 2005. as an outcome of a research project at the University of Toronto. As of Apr 2009, the system indexed over 725 million blog pos ...
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Google Blog Search
Google Blog Search was a specialized service of Google used to search blogs. It was discontinued in May 2011. The Blog Search was "the first major search engine to offer full-blown blog and feed search capabilities". It was released in 2005. The b ...
External links
BlogPulse WebsiteNielsen BuzzMetrics Finalizes Intelliseek AcquisitionNielsen BuzzMetrics website
References
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Blog search engines
Defunct internet search engines